Read the following passage and then respond to the question below:
In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall .. but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other. -Lincoln
Why might Lincoln have used a biblical allusion referring to a divided house in his speech?
He wanted to emphasize that the North and South must work together in order to preserve our country, drawing importance to it using the authority of
religion
He believed the North and the South needed religion in order to survive.
He was revealing that the North and the South should never be able to work together as they are divided into two houses.
He wanted to further divide the North and South, keeping them separate.

What was stevenson’s grandmother’s legacy to him? how does his work build on her legacy,? what values do you learn from her that he continues to display in his adult life?

Based on part two of trifles, which of the following images most reinforces the them of loneliness that exists throughout the play?

Read the excerpts from "the royal house of thebes" and "the story of a warrior queen." "we are women," she told her sister. "we must obey. we have no strength to defy the state." "choose your own part," antigone said. "i go to bury the brother i love." "you are not strong enough," ismene cried. "why, then when my strength fails," antigone answered, "i will give up." she left her sister; ismene dared not follow her. —"the royal house of thebes" again and again the romans were defeated, till it almost seemed as if the britons really would succeed in driving them out of the country. boadicea herself led the soldiers, encouraging them with her brave words. "it is better to die with honor than to live in slavery," she said. "i am a woman, but i would rather die than yield. will you follow me, men? " and of course the men followed her gladly. —"the story of a warrior queen" how are the archetypes presented in these two passages different? the first passage shows antigone as a warrior, and the second passage shows boadicea as a tragic heroine. the first passage shows antigone as a tragic heroine, and the second passage shows boadicea as a sage. the first passage shows antigone as a rebel, and the second passage shows boadicea as a warrior. the first passage shows antigone as a villain, and the second passage shows boadicea as a sage.